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2023 Reports

Matt Iremonger, 2023 Nuffield New Zealand Scholar

Matt Iremonger

This report aims to explore opportunities to enhance the beef on dairy value chain in New Zealand by increasing value, improving efficiency, and aligning production with consumer demands.

Kylie Leonard

A reduction of Greenhouse gases is being demanded through our value chains. Farmers need to be at the table of change, not on the menu.
Kerry Worsnop, 2023 Nuffield New Zealand Scholar

Kerry Worsnop

This report primarily addresses those in leadership, and to a lesser extent agricultural policy makers and others with an interest in how we move forward in delivering better outcomes for those on the land and the land itself.

James Allen

The farming world is striving to feed an ever-increasing population from a declining land area whilst at the same time reducing its environmental footprint.

Tessa Appleby

This report, Eradicating Complacency, investigates the current perception and understanding of Bovine TB with farmers and industry, to gauge if there is a level of complacency happening with the disease in NZ.

Anna Gower-James

This report proposes recommendations for New Zealand dairy exporters to explore further growth between New Zealand and Nigeria.

Jake Kitson

This report aims to help support work in the germplasm import industry, find solutions for import pathways, and keep NZ safe from biological threats.

Jen Corkran

Key insights, including feedback from farmers, around learning preferences and decision-making on pasture and homegrown feed.

Daniel Brocx

The efficacy of a four-day week amongst the office-based knowledge workers of the New Zealand dairy industry workforce, is explored in this Kellogg report by Daniel Brocx.

William Aitkenhead

The potential options for New Zealand livestock farmers to decrease their methane emissions.

Kirsten Holmes

This research report examines the current state of women in food and fibre governance.

Bryce Devane

This report seeks to uncover if improved governance is something that family farming businesses requires and how could it be implemented.

Laura Black

How rostering technology can improve wellbeing, retention and productivity of NZ’s seasonal workforce and what the technology looks like.

Nicholas Jolly

This report outlines the principles that should underpin the development of a new regulatory regime and provides suggestions on how to proceed.

Abdul Jabbar

This report examines how storage pool formats might influence grower behaviour regarding earning time payments.

Oliver Hoare

Investigating both the current and future emission reduction efforts in the New Zealand Kiwifruit supply chain.

Charles Yule

This report looks at what causes drench resistance in sheep and what can be recommended to farmers to mitigate the risk.

Renee Fa’atui

This report examines New Zealand's secondary school education system's effectiveness in guiding students towards careers in agriculture/horticulture.

Alison Bentley

This report seeks to understand NZ's small-scale growers’ integration into the landscape, ecosystems, and communities.

Joe Ward

Is artificial intelligence a solution to disjointed KPI benchmarking: inconsistent data and manual processes hinder business performance measurement.

Chris Beatson

This report looks at how process mapping could be used in farm consultancy for application in a case study setting.

Matt Smith

This report examines how to change from a supply chain strategy to a value chain strategy and what that means for the farmer.

Tim Bathgate

Which of the current climate change mitigation methods have the least effect on profitability?

Annabel Barnett

This report looks at the forces influencing the wool market pricing and the opportunities and challenges facing the industry.